Quite a list...I'd have not thought of a lot of these. Seems like they could categorize you into one of these restricted groups somehow, if they just don't like what you're selling, or you piss them off.
"Windows Gone Thermonuclear, a phenomenon by which process engenders further process eventually becoming a self-sustaining buzz of fervent destructive activity."
Your 98% number tells you how many have Javascript enabled. That's common knowledge. The real number to look at is the count of actual content hits for the popup ads themselves. The popup needs to contain an image or URL that can be counted. If that count is significantly less than the parent page that contains the launching script, then you're being blocked by the difference between the two counts. Most blocking tools strangle the popup before it makes it's first outbuond request, that is why it is a pretty good count.
How will these alliances really effect my browsing experience? Seems like these efforts will just be met with more efforts to block their ads.
Except for the simple microAds from Google, and which now appear all over the place, everything else I, or my company, block. Popups are blocked, ad sites are blocked. Sites that get too annoying with javascript ads, or use annoying pass-through ad pages too often, I stop visiting.
How much more $$$ can there actually be for advertisers on the web? Isn't everyone doing all they can to block these annoyances? Seems like the alliances will be irrelevant.
I can make my own programming; define several "channels", and choose to watch them whenever I like. If this can all be behind a Tivo interface...ohh boy, better for me. I can record several shows, skip all the commercials, and watch them whenever I like!
Yes, networks should be scared. Then again, I pretty much do this now with my Tivo, but is isn't multi-tuner.
The broadcasters have issue since, as they put it, "Cablevision is actually copying, storing and retransmitting it," I guess the retransmission is the problem. They would want additional license fees, and thus higher cable rates/fees from those who use this service...
This will be picked up by Fox News, and CBS, and the other networks, and soon we'll hear stories of how the Galaxy is imploding on Earth, and we're all going to die as the Earth and Sun are crashed together.
By next month, "Galaxy Disaster - The Apocolypse" will be a Fox miniseries, and C-list actors will save the world, based on an excentric scientist's last hour idea to save the world.
I was just picking up hardened bits of play-doh off my kitchen floor. I was also trying to seperate the colors from the ball of white, red, and blue doh.
Then, there's the ball of brown marbled doh that is hopelessly mixed from all the colors in the play-doh fun pack. Of course, the brown doh works perfectly with the play-doh ground beef grinder and burger press. Mmmmmmm. Now, where's the red doh so I can make some doh tomatoes using the tomatoe slice press...
"Dot Net initiative. The.Net framework that many believe is an example of how Microsoft can actually put together elegant and powerful architectures when it wants to, is being killed by Open Source systems that are free and almost just as powerful. Microsoft has been unable to cope with Open Source except to complain about it."
I like java w/ Exclipse like the next guy, but Visual Studio and.NET are great for development. I would not go as far to say that it's being killed by Open Source.
"Freedom to run a program means guaranteeing to an ordinary user that he or she will be able to run and use a program productively and free from complexity. What is the worth of freedom if it cannot be enjoyed by everyone?"
Productivity and complexity are one thing, freedom is another. I'm not even sure of the purpose of this entire article. Huh? Let's not mix human rights around the world with the choice of which Operating System my 65 year old father uses at home. That seems like what the last sentence is saying --> "What is the worth of freedom if it cannot be enjoyed by everyone?" Is this an article about running software on a computer?
Hey IRS - thanks for bringing down their stock price by 40 cents. Hit all us stockholders in the pocketbook. How about working on a payment deal without going for the headlines?
Since I've been dabbling in some home automation stuff a bit recently, I was hoping for a good article on some wireless home security to secure my house - open source stuff. The title was not what I had hoped...anyone know of some good "Open Source Perimeter" hardware and software that works with misterhouse http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/, or other open source projects.
My engineering classes had plenty of students from South Korea, Japan, India, and a few other countries. They prepared poorly for lecture, just the same as the US born students.
I discoverd, after about 2 years of lecture, that I did best simply paying attention and taking very "minimal" notes.
Of all my professors, I would say now that TWO of them were outstanding. And those were the classes where I don't remember taking notes. Both had previously worked in industry.
By far the worst professors were those that were education "lifers".
Except, I do remember a colleague of mine filling half the available diskspace on my company computers with Napster music downloads back in 2000. He was racing to beat the crackdown. He burned a lot of CD's from that frenzy of music downloads...
Sounds like Tivo just doesn't want to manage it's list of lifetime subscribers. They feel that I'm now a freeloader. I purchased a lifetime subscription 3 years ago.
It doesn't really matter though, since HD and new players don't carry over the subscription. In the long run, I will have saved ~$300, by the time I buy a new HD, multi-tuner Tivo box. Then I'll be on the monthly fee train again like everyone else...
Most of the article discusses the 6-button, super simple, fly in the face of 70's & 80's 75 button receiver, remote control design.
I like the idea of a simple remote, with a straightforward on-screen interface.
Then again, the Tivo remore has more than 6 buttons, and it's actually a very good design (except that the recall button is the lower right most button...but that's another story.) I guess it's more about the Tivo menu design, and you're essentially using the directional button on the Tivo most of the time anyway...
Isn't Tivo, with applications running remotely on your PC, pretty much what these "macMini living room things" are shootin for anyway...?
At one point, the article mentions "Sun's Bechtolsheim is unconvinced of the merits of DC, though. The crux of his argument is that DC requires two conversions: one from outside AC to 48-volt DC for distribution within the building, and a second, within servers, from 48 volts to 12 volts."
Why can't the in-building distribution be 12 volts? Is it because there is too much loss across several meters of distance, so 12V would not make it to each PC? Too many PC's in parallel connected to the source DC would drop the voltage too much?
And, another statement says, of loose bars ""We have been involved in a number of cases where one joint failed catastrophically," he said. "The explosion kicked out the entire power distribution system. It wasn't maintained, because everything was packed in so tight that it wasn't accessible."
Why would 48 volt bars cause an explosion?
That's all...
First litigation? Someone else to blame?
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Sore Thumbs and Texting
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Has anyone sued the phone maker, text message service, or anyone else they can think of getting money from? Seems like that's the next story we'll see following all thse people with sore thumbs who need someone other than themselves to blame.
It's just a poll, actually. So they have sore thumbs...big deal.
The exercise by this professor was supposed to simulate thought. But the end result is only as accurate as the model.
Take weather prediction. Here in the northeast, the TV weather people are always saying "the computer models don't all agree." Basically, they run several weather models, each with different results. Sometimes, one or more models are very different than the others. Why? Because the meteorologists that design models have different criteria and put different emphasis on some inputs into the model over other inputs. And the assumptions they make in the algorithms that make up the model are based on their interpretation of "how weather works". Basically, they have some idea, but they don't know for sure.
Same with every economics model, natural resources model, global warming model, and every other model you can think of...
So, now with only a few lines of javascript, your blog can show stats on how many visitors, from which locations, have accessed, posted on, or linked to your particular blog.
So, is the idea that this would also be folded into tracking Google Ads on the same blogs, and aid in further sifting through the click-throughs to bid up AdSense keywords?
Or is it just a neat little nice-to-have-thingy that everyone and their sister will put on their blog?
Both pages are clear and the library actually looks very good. Usually, Yahoo is playing catch up to Google, or so it has seemed. This time, Yahoo gets the upper hand. Google is becoming Yahoo, and Yahoo is becoming what Google used to be. Good stuff!
Not that any of this is ground-breaking, but it is a nice little package.
Makes Google's download package from last month look pretty lame.
Yes, and Apple IIe. My father was a teacher, and he was able to check-out the computer from school and bring it home on weekends. I remember creating Applesoft programs, and using commands like HPLOT to draw high resolution graphics. And there were low resolution graphics too, and those three little lines at the bottom of the screen for the text when you were in graphics modes...ahhh, yes. The good old days.
I sometimes wonder if schools weren't tied into buying Apple's if instead I would have had an 8086 at home on weekends.
It didn't take long to go from Apple IIe, to Apple IIgs, to an 80386....
All we need to do is counteract the alleged global warming by triggering a few volcanic eruptions. If we can get a few big eruptions to occur, much like the "cataclysmic eruption of Tambora Volcano in Indonesia, the most powerful eruption in recorded history", http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/VolcWeather/des cription_volcanoes_and_weather.html
"Global cooling often has been linked with major volcanic eruptions. The year 1816 often has been referred to as "the year without a summer"."
Since we evidently have the ability to warm the Earth on a global scale, we should certainly be able to use science to trigger a few volcanic eruptions. We could cool the Earth right back down again, and start over
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They have quite a list of the obvious stuff that is restricted from being purhcased via Google Checkout; of course, nothing illegal or nasty.e s.html
https://checkout.google.com/seller/content_polici
Quite a list...I'd have not thought of a lot of these. Seems like they could categorize you into one of these restricted groups somehow, if they just don't like what you're selling, or you piss them off.
"Windows Gone Thermonuclear, a phenomenon by which process engenders further process eventually becoming a self-sustaining buzz of fervent destructive activity."
Well, the wikipedia Nuclear Fusion page explains the process of Vista quite well, and it all end in a Bomb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear
The above reply should be marked as "Funny". Agreed, you should be able to get addicted to any number of other "activities" in the Netherlands...
Your 98% number tells you how many have Javascript enabled. That's common knowledge. The real number to look at is the count of actual content hits for the popup ads themselves. The popup needs to contain an image or URL that can be counted. If that count is significantly less than the parent page that contains the launching script, then you're being blocked by the difference between the two counts. Most blocking tools strangle the popup before it makes it's first outbuond request, that is why it is a pretty good count.
How will these alliances really effect my browsing experience? Seems like these efforts will just be met with more efforts to block their ads.
Except for the simple microAds from Google, and which now appear all over the place, everything else I, or my company, block. Popups are blocked, ad sites are blocked. Sites that get too annoying with javascript ads, or use annoying pass-through ad pages too often, I stop visiting.
How much more $$$ can there actually be for advertisers on the web? Isn't everyone doing all they can to block these annoyances? Seems like the alliances will be irrelevant.
I can make my own programming; define several "channels", and choose to watch them whenever I like. If this can all be behind a Tivo interface...ohh boy, better for me. I can record several shows, skip all the commercials, and watch them whenever I like!
Yes, networks should be scared. Then again, I pretty much do this now with my Tivo, but is isn't multi-tuner.
The broadcasters have issue since, as they put it, "Cablevision is actually copying, storing and retransmitting it," I guess the retransmission is the problem. They would want additional license fees, and thus higher cable rates/fees from those who use this service...
This will be picked up by Fox News, and CBS, and the other networks, and soon we'll hear stories of how the Galaxy is imploding on Earth, and we're all going to die as the Earth and Sun are crashed together.
By next month, "Galaxy Disaster - The Apocolypse" will be a Fox miniseries, and C-list actors will save the world, based on an excentric scientist's last hour idea to save the world.
I was just picking up hardened bits of play-doh off my kitchen floor. I was also trying to seperate the colors from the ball of white, red, and blue doh.
Then, there's the ball of brown marbled doh that is hopelessly mixed from all the colors in the play-doh fun pack. Of course, the brown doh works perfectly with the play-doh ground beef grinder and burger press. Mmmmmmm. Now, where's the red doh so I can make some doh tomatoes using the tomatoe slice press...
"Dot Net initiative. The .Net framework that many believe is an example of how Microsoft can actually put together elegant and powerful architectures when it wants to, is being killed by Open Source systems that are free and almost just as powerful. Microsoft has been unable to cope with Open Source except to complain about it."
.NET are great for development. I would not go as far to say that it's being killed by Open Source.
I like java w/ Exclipse like the next guy, but Visual Studio and
"Freedom to run a program means guaranteeing to an ordinary user that he or she will be able to run and use a program productively and free from complexity. What is the worth of freedom if it cannot be enjoyed by everyone?"
Productivity and complexity are one thing, freedom is another. I'm not even sure of the purpose of this entire article. Huh? Let's not mix human rights around the world with the choice of which Operating System my 65 year old father uses at home. That seems like what the last sentence is saying --> "What is the worth of freedom if it cannot be enjoyed by everyone?" Is this an article about running software on a computer?
Hey IRS - thanks for bringing down their stock price by 40 cents. Hit all us stockholders in the pocketbook. How about working on a payment deal without going for the headlines?
Since I've been dabbling in some home automation stuff a bit recently, I was hoping for a good article on some wireless home security to secure my house - open source stuff. The title was not what I had hoped...anyone know of some good "Open Source Perimeter" hardware and software that works with misterhouse http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/, or other open source projects.
My engineering classes had plenty of students from South Korea, Japan, India, and a few other countries. They prepared poorly for lecture, just the same as the US born students.
I discoverd, after about 2 years of lecture, that I did best simply paying attention and taking very "minimal" notes.
Of all my professors, I would say now that TWO of them were outstanding. And those were the classes where I don't remember taking notes. Both had previously worked in industry.
By far the worst professors were those that were education "lifers".
Quoting from the article, this pretty much sums it up:
"...attributed the Supreme Court's decision to a reluctance to open a potential can of worms."
I guess, sometimes it is best to let the lower courts and local government deal with certain issues. Looks like the system works.
Now, the private land grab for private use decision, that's another story...
It seems so obvious. It always has been obvious.
Except, I do remember a colleague of mine filling half the available diskspace on my company computers with Napster music downloads back in 2000. He was racing to beat the crackdown. He burned a lot of CD's from that frenzy of music downloads...
So, when will we be able to use a worm hole, or jump across wrinkles in space to actually visit this planet, and see it with our own eyes?
That's what I'd like to see...or at least the beginning of real space travel across light years in minutes or hours.
Sounds like Tivo just doesn't want to manage it's list of lifetime subscribers. They feel that I'm now a freeloader. I purchased a lifetime subscription 3 years ago.
It doesn't really matter though, since HD and new players don't carry over the subscription. In the long run, I will have saved ~$300, by the time I buy a new HD, multi-tuner Tivo box. Then I'll be on the monthly fee train again like everyone else...
Most of the article discusses the 6-button, super simple, fly in the face of 70's & 80's 75 button receiver, remote control design.
I like the idea of a simple remote, with a straightforward on-screen interface.
Then again, the Tivo remore has more than 6 buttons, and it's actually a very good design (except that the recall button is the lower right most button...but that's another story.) I guess it's more about the Tivo menu design, and you're essentially using the directional button on the Tivo most of the time anyway...
Isn't Tivo, with applications running remotely on your PC, pretty much what these "macMini living room things" are shootin for anyway...?
At one point, the article mentions "Sun's Bechtolsheim is unconvinced of the merits of DC, though. The crux of his argument is that DC requires two conversions: one from outside AC to 48-volt DC for distribution within the building, and a second, within servers, from 48 volts to 12 volts."
Why can't the in-building distribution be 12 volts? Is it because there is too much loss across several meters of distance, so 12V would not make it to each PC? Too many PC's in parallel connected to the source DC would drop the voltage too much?
And, another statement says, of loose bars ""We have been involved in a number of cases where one joint failed catastrophically," he said. "The explosion kicked out the entire power distribution system. It wasn't maintained, because everything was packed in so tight that it wasn't accessible."
Why would 48 volt bars cause an explosion?
That's all...
Has anyone sued the phone maker, text message service, or anyone else they can think of getting money from? Seems like that's the next story we'll see following all thse people with sore thumbs who need someone other than themselves to blame.
It's just a poll, actually. So they have sore thumbs...big deal.
The exercise by this professor was supposed to simulate thought. But the end result is only as accurate as the model.
Take weather prediction. Here in the northeast, the TV weather people are always saying "the computer models don't all agree." Basically, they run several weather models, each with different results. Sometimes, one or more models are very different than the others. Why? Because the meteorologists that design models have different criteria and put different emphasis on some inputs into the model over other inputs. And the assumptions they make in the algorithms that make up the model are based on their interpretation of "how weather works". Basically, they have some idea, but they don't know for sure.
Same with every economics model, natural resources model, global warming model, and every other model you can think of...
So, now with only a few lines of javascript, your blog can show stats on how many visitors, from which locations, have accessed, posted on, or linked to your particular blog.
So, is the idea that this would also be folded into tracking Google Ads on the same blogs, and aid in further sifting through the click-throughs to bid up AdSense keywords?
Or is it just a neat little nice-to-have-thingy that everyone and their sister will put on their blog?
Both pages are clear and the library actually looks very good. Usually, Yahoo is playing catch up to Google, or so it has seemed. This time, Yahoo gets the upper hand. Google is becoming Yahoo, and Yahoo is becoming what Google used to be. Good stuff!
Not that any of this is ground-breaking, but it is a nice little package.
Makes Google's download package from last month look pretty lame.
Yes, and Apple IIe. My father was a teacher, and he was able to check-out the computer from school and bring it home on weekends. I remember creating Applesoft programs, and using commands like HPLOT to draw high resolution graphics. And there were low resolution graphics too, and those three little lines at the bottom of the screen for the text when you were in graphics modes...ahhh, yes. The good old days.
I sometimes wonder if schools weren't tied into buying Apple's if instead I would have had an 8086 at home on weekends.
It didn't take long to go from Apple IIe, to Apple IIgs, to an 80386....
All we need to do is counteract the alleged global warming by triggering a few volcanic eruptions. If we can get a few big eruptions to occur, much like the "cataclysmic eruption of Tambora Volcano in Indonesia, the most powerful eruption in recorded history", http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/VolcWeather/des cription_volcanoes_and_weather.html
"Global cooling often has been linked with major volcanic eruptions. The year 1816 often has been referred to as "the year without a summer"."
Since we evidently have the ability to warm the Earth on a global scale, we should certainly be able to use science to trigger a few volcanic eruptions. We could cool the Earth right back down again, and start over
Brilliant! Brilliant!